Three Myanmar migrant workers are killed and two others are injured after an explosive drone used in Myanmar’s civil conflict detonates in neighboring Thailand, Thai police say. The incident is reported in Tak province, on the border opposite Myanmar’s Karen state. Thai authorities receive reports of the blast on Tuesday afternoon and send officers to the scene. Police say the apparent attack drone hits a tree on the Thai side of the border before exploding. The blast kills the three migrants, who are working on a nearby chilli farm, and injures two additional labourers. Local police chief Anusorn Dungkong tells AFP that the victims are Myanmar migrant workers. Authorities are investigating the incident and working to determine how the drone entered Thai airspace and whether it malfunctioned or missed its intended target.
Three Myanmar migrant workers killed in Thailand after errant drone explosion
Three Myanmar migrant workers are killed and two others are injured after an explosive drone used in Myanmar’s civil conflict detonates in neighboring Thailand, Thai police say. The incident is report...
- Three Myanmar migrant workers die in Tak province, Thailand, after a drone explosion.
- Two other Myanmar migrant workers are injured in the blast.
- Thai police say the drone appears to strike a tree on the Thai side of the border before exploding.
- The incident occurs in an area opposite Myanmar’s Karen state.
- Authorities investigate how the drone used in Myanmar’s conflict reached Thailand.
BANGKOK — Three migrants from Myanmar have been killed and two wounded after a drone used in their country’s civil war exploded in neighboring Thailand where they were working, Thai police said Wednesday. Thai authorities received reports of the blast in Tak province, opposite Myanmar’s Karen state, on Tuesday afternoon and rushed to the scene, local police chief Anusorn Dungkong told AFP. “Three people have died, all of them Myanmar migrant workers, and two others were injured,” he said. The apparent attack drone struck a tree on the Thai side of the border before exploding, killing the laborers who worked […]...Keep on reading: Three Myanmar migrants in Thailand killed by errant war drone
2 months agoThe apparent attack drone struck a tree on the Thai side of the border before exploding, killing the labourers who worked on a nearby chilli farm, police said
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